The Market Basket

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The Market Basket

I kept wandering out to the garden this past summer and needed a basket to collect my produce...and so the this creation; a first of many. It is so nice to make just the right basket for the job. And they look so pretty! It will be hard to dirty them up with my garden tasks.


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